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The 54 winning cities in this year’s survey are incorporating community feedback into their plans, ensuring responsible AI use, maturing their data programs and navigating challenges without sacrificing service. -
The 52 counties honored in this year's awards from the Center for Digital Government are transforming local government with cutting-edge tech while focusing on resident services.
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Winning cities in the 2024 Digital Cities Survey are not only modernizing their IT infrastructure — they're investing in digital equity programs, upgrading resident-facing services and prioritizing data security.
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What if cars talked to traffic lights? Five busy intersections in Austin, Texas, have been outfitted with devices to enable connected vehicle communications. The city plans on installing two more in 2019.
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New Mexico's state capital has launched a new smartphone application, in partnership with ParkMobile, that allows residents and visitors to easily find available parking spaces, as well as remotely add money to meters — and it's free to the city.
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Voters going to the polls in the city of Montgomery will no longer wait to be manually checked-in by last name, but instead will scan their state ID on a tablet, a process that should take less than 40 seconds.
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70 ExpressPoll Tablets will be implemented to help secure the uploads and downloads of election information.
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Southbridge, Mass., now has a way for citizens to submit crime tips anonymously and receive police notifications by downloading the free "Southbridge PD" app. Officials say crimes in progress still require a call to 911.
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Despite the advice of city staff, the Lima, Ohio, City Council did not have the necessary number of yes votes to authorize the city to hire a chief technology officer and a set up an information technology department.
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As much activity happens on the sides of streets every day, it's not easy to log the features of a curb. So a company backed by Sidewalk Labs — a subsidiary of Google's parent company, Alphabet — is looking to crowdsource the information with a new mobile app.
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An unsuccessful attempt to infiltrate voting systems during the 2016 election cycle “galvanized us into upping our game,” said Chris Wlaschin, Election Systems & Software’s vice president of systems security.
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The office was hit with ransomware in 2017 during a "data dump" from a cellphone in the course of investigating a case. But it doesn't have any records of the attack.
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The City Council has one more chance to pass legislation that would establish an enterprise technology department that would oversee all major tech projects undertaken by the City of Lima.
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County leaders contend the Federal Communications Commission overstepped its authority in limiting local controls over where telecom companies can place small cell antennas.
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Members of the city's technology oversight committee rated the Portland Online Permitting System project yellow on a green-yellow-red scale (green being best, red worst) for its expected completion date, budget and project stability. An independent project consultant gave the same ratings.
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The program officially began in late July, but the department wanted to ensure the system was operating successfully with cellphone carriers.
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Mayor Tim Keller announced Nov. 1 that the highly anticipated buses were being pulled after brake and equipment failures were reported during testing.
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Envoy Technologies deployed electric Volkswagens as part of a car-sharing program in two neighborhoods as part of a push to introduce the technology.
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